XV
Lo-Katoo
(Day 110 on Tashoo)
I can't believe it! Three nights in a row? I've been before the Ishoo'se Aka'ny the last two days. I
had convinced them that my ideas would mean it would be detrimental to put me to death. I can't
think of any reason to have to return before them again so soon. So, why am I having a third
nightmare in as many nights?
*****
Tonight, my first dream finds me in the company of Tyarza, as usual. We are on the deck of an
ocean-going vessel. In front of us is a pool with several attractive women swimming while
wearing skimpy bathing suits. Tyarza is wearing a leather bikini suit. Around the waist of the suit
is a leather fringe which makes the suit look like an extremely short leather hula skirt.
I get up and walk toward the pool, inviting Tyarza to join me. She tentatively arises and joins me
at the poolside. She reaches out and grasps my hand with a grip that makes me believe she could
easily break all the bones in my hand. Despite the fact that the water is perfectly clear, I can
sense that she is as scared of the water as any Terran house cat you could imagine. I can't
imagine why she should be unless it's instinctive because of the creatures that Mu-Naka
described during my Trial of Life and Death.
Because of her fear, I escort Tyarza to the ship's railing and we watch the water. She is still
fearful but not as strongly. I look in the water and see a pod of dolphins swimming in the bow
wake. I point them out to Tyarza and she screams fearfully as she backs away. She says,
“Oocholefala!”
“No, Tyarza. They are dolphins. They just look like Oocholefala. Besides, are not Oocholefala
land animals? There is no land for many kilometers.”